Comments on: Preview of incredible science fiction and pulp art auctionhttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html
Brain candy for Happy MutantsMon, 30 Mar 2015 20:24:05 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Michael Harthttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1457075
Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:27:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1457075That would be the perfect wall painting for a beach house in Florida, preferably mine! I’ll see you at ftlauderdalevideoguide
]]>By: bob therieauhttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1457076
Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:27:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1457076Or that she doesn’t have a clutch lever or that the forks are misaligned with the handlebars. She’s really and truly screwed, but I will happily take time off to nurse her back to health when she gets out of hospital.
]]>By: Halloween_Jackhttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456755
Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:59:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456755 The instantly-detaching, non-scooter-drivetrain-fouling breakaway skirt is part of the fantasy, just like those Art Frahm pinups where the woman whose panties’ elastic suddenly and catastrophically fails never trips over them and suffers severe facial injuries as she face-plants onto the sidewalk.
]]>By: Noctilucent Studioshttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456729
Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:10:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456729Nope…she IS wearing a bra, it’sjust one of those really sheer kinds, ala Agent Provocateur….on a sadder note, Goddam do I miss Ray Bradbury.
]]>By: malindromehttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456661
Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:41:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456661You’re thinking of Art Frahm. If you want to go through a rabbit-hole of weird psycho-sexual imagery (featuring celery), James Lileks has thoughtfully compiled a gallery.
]]>By: Marcus 9000http://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456657
Sat, 23 Jun 2012 05:31:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456657 The girl on the bike IS amazing science fiction.
How else could a picture from 1956 show a Yamaha Twin-Jet 100 YL1 from the mid 1960’s.
]]>By: Preston Sturgeshttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456614
Sat, 23 Jun 2012 03:01:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456614Reading the Ray Bradbury cartoon, I was prepared to make ironic comments about the cliched story line, but this very familiar story works and works well, largely because it is so well structured. It builds and builds, and it would work as a comic book or it would work around the campfire.

Not to ratfuck the whole thing, but it occurs to me that this same pacing is used in Bradbury’s “Zero Hour.”

Oh and in the second page of the comic, one of the astronauts has broomhandled Mauser, like Hans Solo.

]]>By: Ian Woodhttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456590
Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:51:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456590 If you pitch that idea to David Cronenberg I’ma come after you. I had it first.
]]>By: tocshttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456536
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:32:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456536Man, the girl on the bike is almost a cool picture. Almost. It just makes me cringe. I do not think she would be killed or brain damaged. Most motorcycle accidents do not result in death or serious injury but this looks painful. As noted above it is a good thing that she is an oil painting.

The guys in the spaceship are worse. Did they not look out the window before they landed. It seams you would want a pretty good idea what you are landing on even if it is not on a group of kids playing in the park.

]]>By: jandresehttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456501
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:11:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456501Or in the worst case, just look up in the sky and see if you can find Earth.

I’m always annoyed at stories when they require everybody to act like an idiot and question nothing.

“Something crazy is happening!”
“Lets just go with the flow.”
“Ok.”

The whole plan would have fallen apart if there had been a single person on that ship who questioned what the hell was happening or used a tiny bit of common sense.

Then again, if the (spoiler alert) aliens can read minds, maybe they can control them a little too? Maybe just enough to surpress higher reasoning and make everybody just malleable enough to fall for the ruse?

I guess the moral of the story is: Don’t try to explore planets with hostile mind controlling aliens.

]]>By: jimhhttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456498
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:05:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456498Or a bra!
]]>By: jimhhttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456497
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:04:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456497I prefer to think that it’s an extremely light silk wrap skirt, and will not lock up the rear wheel, but will just get pulled into the spokes. Failing this, I prefer to think that she is an oil painting, and therefore in no real danger!
]]>By: Antinous / Moderatorhttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456471
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:21:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456471

More likely she’ll lay it down and slide a bit as her skin rips off her thighs before hitting her unprotected head on the curb or a passing car, suffering brain damage.

Unlikely given that she’s obviously underwater.

]]>By: michael bhttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456456
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:40:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456456Well, you’re a buzz kill.
]]>By: Fogberthttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456457
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:40:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456457The navigator always gets killed by a bad space person.
]]>By: crummetthttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456449
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:32:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456449I’m a bit disappointed that none of the Art Frahm has any celery.
]]>By: Joseph Francishttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456443
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:29:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456443Someone should make a series of classic pinups as two panel comics and fill in ‘the next frame.’
]]>By: ElfSternberghttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456445
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:29:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456445I mean, is that even a real Elvgren? Where’s the celery?
]]>By: Gary61http://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456440
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:23:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456440gorgeous gal on a bike … but, technical issues:
She’s stomping on the gearshift, but NOT pulling the clutch lever – downshifting while riding FAST – AND her blue skirt is getting tangled into the rear wheel spokes – she’s about to go ass-over-teakettle over the handlebars.
She may look good now – but she’s gonna be riding to the hospital inna few minutes …
]]>By: robdobbshttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456438
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:22:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456438That woman is seconds away from a very painful, possibly deadly – definitely sexy – accident. If she’s lucky, she’ll just lock up the back wheel skid to a controlled stop. More likely she’ll lay it down and slide a bit as her skin rips off her thighs before hitting her unprotected head on the curb or a passing car, suffering brain damage.
]]>By: malindromehttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456436
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:20:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456436I know right? And she’s not even wearing a helmet.
]]>By: Joseph Francishttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456435
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:19:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456435Somebody I showed it to said: Classic pinup artists always were coming up with inventive ways of painting a girl’s clothes coming off, but this one is like a snapshot 0.5 seconds before a tragic roadkill accident.
]]>By: retepslluerbhttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/22/preview-of-incredible-science.html#comment-1456425
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:04:00 +0000http://boingboing.net/?p=167331#comment-1456425I love how they wonder if they had returned to earth by accident.

“No! No! We checked every mile of the the way! We went past the moon and out into space. I’m sure we’re on Mars, sir!”